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Is Black Panther Islamophobic? A Somali Canadian Perspective
Somtribune Staff Writer
First, I need to tell you who I am.
I am a diaspora Somali Canadian based in Toronto, Ontario. I am an educator, researcher with a focus on diversity and inclusion, curriculum development, public engagement, immigration, and Criminal Justice System working with underserved and underemployed Black youth in Toronto. As a co-founder of the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law (CAMWL) I have organized public education forums and co-authored a paper exploring issues of Islamophobia and anti-Black racism and how they intersect in the lives of Black Muslim Canadians.
Black Panther is beautifully made, cinematically powerful and the actors truly embody the iconic, larger than life superheroes many of us grew up with, but the caviar here is that they reflect so many of us who rarely see ourselves on the big screen. I have watched this movie three times now and every time, I leave the theatre thinking about what could have been if Africa was not colonized and exploited, including how past and current African leadership have consistently failed its people. What I have not considered though was the argument made by some Muslims about it being Islamophobic. Specifically, the opening scene of the movie, where Black American actor Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia and Zimbabwean actress Danai Gurira as General Okoye rescue young Black girls kidnapped by men who seem to be members of the notorious Boko Haram. The film clearly states that the scene takes place in the Sambisa Forest, which is believed to be where Boko Haram is hiding many of the girls it has abducted leading some to claim that it reinforces the negative stereotype about Muslims as inherently violent. One prominent Canadian Muslim figure stated the following:
"At the risk of sounding insensitive to the longing of the black community for a worthy portrayal, this movie joins many others in normalising a stereotypical depiction of Muslims." (Faisal Kutty).
I am fully cognizant of the explicit and implicit ways mainstream media and pop culture weaponizes bigoted images about Muslims. I hope it would be needless to say that I wouldn't pay three times to go see a film if I thought was promoting Islamophobia. As a Somali woman, my community has been at the front lines of Islamophobia in this country since we came her, the majority of us as refugees, in the late 80s and 90s. But, we have also been targets of the systemic anti-Black racism of the settler colonial Canadian state as it manifests in the school system, the child welfare system, the criminal justice system, and the immigration system. I have a Masters from OISE but I didn't need to go to university to study these systems, I've seen the damage they can do first hand.
I have watched the film Black Panther three times. This shouldn't surprise many people. Many Black Canadians who could afford to have watched the film multiple times. We have also worked with allies to raise funds to ensure Black children and youth in our communities could go see the film. Entire classes of schools have booked out theatres for private screenings so their students of all races could watch the film for free. That's because this isn't your typical Hollywood superhero movie.
Unlike Black Canadians I know, I didn't dress up in traditional Somali attire to go watch the film because I was coming from work, although I did wear Somali accessories each time. I went to Black Panther three times because I needed to.
Black Panther is not just some feel good movie aimed to make Black people happy because there is a superhero who looks like us. As the film's Black American director and writer Ryan Coogler has stated, he is serving medicine in ice cream.
The first time I saw the film, I had a lot to process and just think through, so felt watching it a second time wouldl allow me to enjoy the movie again but also let me think through a lot of the sadness and curiosity that came with watching it the first time. The sadness and curiosity came from thinking about what could have been if the continent of Africa, if my homeland Somalia, had not been colonized. Wakanda is a fictional African nation that not only has become rich from using a metal with extensive powers that came from outer space, Vibranium, it is a nation that, because it was able to use technology from this metal, managed to protect itself from being colonized.
The superhero aspects of the film, come from this "magical" metal, which of course reminds those of us of all of the natural riches of the continent, such as the uranium from the Democratic Republic of Congo that the US used in the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the coltan used probably in one of the devices you are using to read this article, to oil, of which Nigeria has some of the best quality, to the countless plants that are currently being patented by US and Indian pharmaceutical companies. The continent of Africa in reality is rich, but few of those riches have been used to support the development of the continent and its peoples because of colonialism and imperialism that persists, in various forms, to this day.
Black Panther is an anti-colonial superhero movie, and no, it doesn't take a degree from OISE to understand that, it's stated repeatedly in the dialogue in the film itself.
But of course, I have to answer the question first, is the film Islamophobic?
As someone who writes, researches, and educates on the subject of Islamophobia, I would like to think I would know Islamophobia when I see it. And I don't see it here, what I do see is a narrative that is not only Black-centred but primarily African-centred, meaning that it might not be as accessible to those who frankly don't engage much with the discussions and dilemmas Black communities, particularly Black African communities, grapple with on a daily basis. You don't have to be an expert in African studies to understand these discusions. Kutty further states: "The problem is that this scene plays into the prevalent negative narrative of Muslims as bad, because there is no obviously good Muslim (unless you are an expert on African cultures and can read into the movie)." Really, couldn't you also just be a Nigerian? An African? This statement says more about the author's own misguided assumption than that of the viewers he is concerned about. In order to not just jump to the most negative conclusion possible about Muslims based on this scene, you could just be anyone who knows anything about Nigeria, the most populous nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the challenges it faces.
Challenges like Boko Haram.
In 2015, Boko Haram killed more people than Daesh (ISIS). Did you know that?
I have read those accusing the film of Islamophobia saying that it would have been better to not have included anything about Boko Haram in the opening scene so that there would be no portrayal of Muslims at all. That's because they are not seeing the film centred on a African perspective, which no, you do not have to be an expert in African Studies to know about, you just have to follow discussions by Nigerians, Africans, and even Black Americans on how little attention has been given to Boko Haram in mainstream media, and how little assistance has been offered in terms of being able to fight Boko Haram or at least support the humanitarian needs of the millions of people the group has displaced. Considering that Nigeria is the most populous nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, portraying a major ongoing conflict that has no end in sight in that nation seems pretty relevant to me for a film about a fictional African nation. One conflict on the contintent is not interchangable for another, although many people who pay little attention to the region may think so.
Why has the lack of support for Nigerians impacted by Boko Haram concerned Black people on the continent and in the diaspora so much? Because, the lack of concern about the chaos caused by Boko Haram- chaos that continues to this day, as just this week, while everyone was writing about how Islamophobic Black Panther was, the group attacked a predominantly Muslim town and now over 100 Muslim girls are missing, their parents desperate to find them-is part of the global Black Lives Matter struggle. From the lack of concern about the babies of African migrants drowning in the Mediterranean to even Muslim communities seemingly unaware of the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic until the Pope paid a visit to them, or the ongoing struggle to get non-African Muslims to donate to humanitarian causes in Africa, which anyone who works with Islamic charities will admit-Black Lives don't really seem to matter globally.
So no, the scene was necessary in terms of the overall theme of the movie, the need for Wakanda to stop living in isolation from the problems of the rest of the world and do something to help…because no one else is going to. This is a scene of Africans intervening to protect other Africans. And this issue will run throughout the whole film, as it explores how unfortunately Black peoples have turned on each other, often due to the chaos caused by colonialism and American imperial attempts at destabilization, often in the interest of extracting natural resources. No, you don't need a degree from OISE to understand that or be some expert on African studies, it is spelled out quite clearly by Agent Ross, the CIA agent played by Martin Freeman who has hid what he knows about Black Panther from his government.
Frankly, if the filmmakers really wanted to be Islamophobic, they could have had Black Panther intervene on Libyan slave traders or Muslim terrorists attacking a mall or university in Kenya and demanding that Christians identify themselves so they could kill them. Sadly, there are plenty of situations on the continent right now that could easily lend themselves to the fostering of Islamophobic sentiment if depicted on film. But Boko Haram isn't one of them as their main targets are other Muslims, they haven't discriminated between abducting Christians or Muslims, they seem determined to wreak havoc on everyone.
A pivotal moment in the opening scene, that I am still puzzled that those accusing the film of Islamophobia haven't commented on, is when Nakia (Lupita N'yong'o) stops Black Panther from killing a militant who is firing on him. Black Panther would be fully in his rights to defend himself, but Nakia stops him. She informs him that the young man was abducted too. It is a striking moment and the first where I knew I was watching a very different superhero movie. With a few lines of dialogue, Nakia makes the argument in defense of child soldiers. I would have expected writers who were vocal about our need to bring Omar Khadr back home to recognize this.
Also, did anyone else love how Nakia fights wearing full jilbab?
After this scene, we travel to Wakanda and hear a song by Senegalese Fulani artist Baaba Maal. I could just imagine how excited many Senegalese Muslims in Quebec watching the film must have been when they heard this!
It is fine for Muslims to agree to disagree about whether Black Panther should have included a positive image of a Muslim character who is obviously Muslim by Western standards. There are huge arguments taking place among Black communities about the film, whether it is anti-colonial or instead just neo-colonial, the lack of a positive representation of an African American, why so many of us identify with Killmonger though not his methods, and they are so exciting to read and engage in. This is a film designed to make you think, so of course there will be disagreements.
But I have a problem with dismissing a film that clearly has opened up discussions about colonialism, the real reasons behind American interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, how so often dictators use the language of "revolution" to claim and maintain their own power, and the need for colonized peoples to realize that if you use the tools of colonizers and imperialists to "liberate" your people, you will just cause chaos because, as Black feminist Audre Lorde states "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." This is something we are constantly trying to do as Muslims, learning from our own history and intellectual traditions to solve our current problems instead of feeling that we need to always look to Western traditions.
These discussions are just as relevant for Muslims who are not Black as they are for Black Muslims.
If we are going to engage with concerns about the film stirring up Islamophobia, Muslim writers must also incorporate a discussion about these other aspects of the film. Why are critiques of the film ignoring how the film addresses American imperialism, often orchestrated by the CIA (again clearly stated in the film) and how it has ravaged nations and continues to do so constantly creating humanitarian crises, leading to refugees that the states responsible for creating the crises then don't want to support.
The film even seems aimed at opening up discussions about Black Americans in the US military and how they have become tools of this imperialism, a discussion that has been happening in Black communities for over a century since the US invasion of the Philippines, and was even raised by Martin Luther King Jr during the Vietnam War.
I am also concerned with how these articles written seem to automatically pit Black communities against Muslims. As if somehow Black people are enjoying this film at Muslims' expense. And if you are going to argue that Black Panther is Islamophobic it is not a stretch for me to argue that the lack of thought that has gone into these opinion pieces exploring concerns about Islamophobia in the film stir up anti-Blackness within Muslim communities and also feed into a long standing divisiveness between Black Muslims and non-Muslim Black peoples which some of us are working hard to try to breakdown because there are so many issues we need to be collaborating on right now. Even if this is all "unintentional" it is very real, I'm watching it play out on my social media right now.
These discussions should probably also include how Islamophobia in Black communities, anti-Black racism in Muslim communities, and fostering divisiveness between Black Muslims and non-Muslim Black peoples in the diaspora and on the continent just might be playing into those imperialist interests…so maybe we should think twice before so easily playing along.
I just want the Black Muslim children I work with to go see this film and not feel like enjoying it is somehow a betrayal of the Ummah (Global Muslim community).
If Muslims are very concerned that the viewers of this movie are walking away with a negative view of Islam, shouldn't we then be trying to engage in more dialogue with non-Muslim Black communities? Of course, if we do so, there will be no way to avoid their questions about issues of anti-Black racism within local Muslim communities and in Muslim majority countries. Issues they are aware of either because they have been the target of this racism or they have supported Black Muslims who have been the target. Because, although relations between Black Muslims and non-Muslim Black peoples are complicated and conflict prone, in reality, we are deeply interconnected not only in the diaspora but in many countries on the continent where Muslims and non-Muslims have been co-existing for hundreds and in some regions over a thousand years. In many ways, there is much we could learn from how African countries navigate religious pluralism.
What the 'Islamophobia controversy,' around Black Panther reveals is a larger issue within the Muslim communities, one where the discussion about Islamophobia is considered a static and linear dialogue that transcends history and lived experiences, unifying 1.5 billion under one political thought process. I have argued against this popular paradigm, which excludes Black communities history with Islam, their suffering under both the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, but also slave trades driven by predominantly Muslim markets that transported Africans across the Middle East and South Asia, where there remain African diasporas in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and India that are often marginalized and subject to systemic anti-Black racism, the rise of sectarian Muslim traditions and political movements that have destabilized African countries, to present day anti-Black racism within Muslim diaspora communities. Even when it seems Black Muslims are going along with the status quo, many of us recognize that being aware of who we are does not make us "bad" Muslims who are disloyal to the Ummah but instead we are striving to be principled people who know that we are to stand up for justice, even if it is against our brothers, sisters, and ourselves as the beloved Prophet Mohamed (saw) called us to do.
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NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal today allowed the plea of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) seeking time to file some documents in several pleas challenging the ministry's recent notification exempting real estate projects from obtaining prior environmental clearance.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Swatanter Kumar asked MoEF to file by February 7 additional documents and listed the matter for day-to-day hearing from February 15.
"MoEF wishes to file some documents relevant for comprehensively deciding the matter by the tribunal. We permit MoEF to file additional documents by Tuesday," it said.
During the hearing, the counsel for MoEF sought two weeks time file an affidavit and other documents to show the reason for amending the notification published on December 9, 2016 exempting building and construction projects of all sizes from the process of environment impact assessment (EIA) and prior environmental clearance before beginning construction.
The green panel had earlier refused to stay the December 9, 2016 notification by MoEF and issued notice to the ministries of Environment and Forests and Urban Development while seeking their reply.
The tribunal was hearing several pleas including one filed by the Society for Protection of Environment and Biodiversity seeking quashing of the December 9 notification on the ground that it was in contravention to the provisions of EIA notification, 2006 and Environment Protection Act, 1986.
A similar plea filed by former scientist Mahendra Pandey, through advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, is being heard together.
For smaller projects (less than 20,000 square metres), the amended notification even has a "self-declaration" clause, which will ensure issuance of permission from urban local bodies.
For larger projects of more than 20,000 square metres size, the EC and building permission will be given by urban local bodies simultaneously in an "integrated format".
The bench had earlier pulled up MoEF for "not applying its mind" while amending the notification and had restrained it from granting any fresh permission under the new regulations.
The petition had alleged that the notification tries to "circumvent" the provisions of the EIA Notification, 2006 in the name of "ease of doing business" for building and construction of areas which are more than 20,000 sqm and less than 150,000 sqm wherein prior EC was required earlier.


British agent, a former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, who were injured in the result of the use of nerve agents in Salisbury, twice passed secret information to London while working for the British intelligence service MI6. For this, he made notes in the books invisible ink, the newspaper Daily Mail.
The edition published on September 28 excerpts from the work of the journalist of the British broadcasting Corporation bi-Bi-si Mark Urbana, which he wrote based on interviews with former GRU Colonel.
It is argued that Skripal in the 90-ies became acquainted with a British intelligence agent named Richard Bagnell, who suggested that the Russian work for MI6.
According to the newspaper, Skripal worked at the Russian Embassy in Spain and received for every meeting with Bagnella a few thousand dollars. However, after returning to Moscow in 1996, scouts had to find a new form of communication.
The journalist notes that Skripal was twice transferred to the British secret data with the help of books, the pages of which were written in invisible ink. He passed through his wife, who in 1997 and 1998, were on holiday in Alicante and málaga, respectively.


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The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
The Lawrence Longley Award is given for the best article on representation and electoral systems published in the previous year.
Leon Weaver Award for the best paper presented at a conference panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Section.


In the workers compensation space, not only have claim costs increased because of medical issues, but the landscape has also become much more complex. Along with the elevated incidence of fraud, economic fears, and a growing dependency on prescription drugs, more specific issues are challenging the industry, such as increased use of intrathecal pumps and spinal cord stimulators as well as diagnoses related to subjective symptoms (for example, reflex sympathetic dystrophy [RSD], fibromyalgia, post-concussion syndrome).
No wonder claim costs have skyrocketed since the 1990s, adjusters' jobs have become more complex, litigation is more prevalent, and the industry is looking for ways to get matters under control.
The graph from NCCI shows the growth in medical claim costs from 1991 to 2012. (See Figure 1.) The dollar amounts are staggering and highlight the need to identify and intervene on claims that are driving those costs. Simply put, early intervention is the next best thing to prevention.
If insurance professionals could spot exploding claims they would have a chance to intervene and control costs.
Assign the claim to a more experienced adjuster.
Increase the level of managerial review.
Direct the case to a nurse case manager.
Retain the best lawyer available.
Engage a medical professional to help make treatment changes.
Use a team approach to defend the claim.
The end result would ensure that claims with high-potential exposure are first recognized and then placed with the right people to drive the best outcome — because the reality is that these high-dollar claims have a grossly disproportionate impact on overall results.
Identification and intervention work, and it doesn't take many cases such as Mr. Geaney highlighted to prove the value in such a model.
While it may sound simple to identify such claims, in reality it's extremely complex. Claims grow increasingly complicated for a number of reasons: secondary gain, unnecessary treatment, obesity, psychological issues, comorbidity, extended use of opioid medications, and fraud. All those issues should raise red flags, but many times they're buried in medical records, PBM reports, bill review records, and so forth.
Additionally, it's important to highlight that it's not always the obvious "big" case involving fusion surgery that takes a turn for the worse. Sometimes it's the seemingly innocent claims that prove to be most problematic — minor claims, medical-only claims, minimum lost time, and the like. Those types of cases tend to be overlooked, and it's assumed they'll close quickly — which is not always so. That's where analytics can play a key role by scoring all claims, not just the "big" ones, and acting as a safety net within the claims organization.
Let's be very clear: It's not the adjuster's fault. Having been a workers compensation and liability defense attorney for about ten years, I can tell you firsthand that adjusters have a very difficult job, and they're at the center of the claims process.
With large case loads and numerous issues to contend with each day, adjusters can't possibly spot each and every claim that could spiral out of control. That's why predictive analytics and the use of data are essential tools to help adjusters ensure that suspicious claims don't fall between the cracks.
Predictive analytics can help better manage claims, resources, and vendors. Among its many functions, analytics can be used for adjuster assignment, subrogation, litigation management, settlement evaluation, frequency and severity prediction, loss reserving, fraud detection, anomaly detection, fast-track identification, and claim service strategies and prioritization.
Nearly 50 percent of all workers' compensation executives surveyed by Towers Watson employed predictive analytics in some fashion in 2011, compared with only 18 percent in 2009. The trend is clearly moving toward adopting some form of predictive analytics in the workers' compensation space.The reality is that data is captured at nearly every stage of a claim from first report of injury to settlement. In fact, Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act requires unprecedented data not only to be captured but also reported electronically to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the time of settlement or when there's a responsibility for ongoing medical care. But are insurers using this data proactively? Or is the data captured, sent, and simply stored?
Based on the complexity and volume of claims and the various types of data coming across the adjuster's desk every day, it's imperative that any predictive analytics be designed to reduce the adjuster's workload, use data feeds to eliminate manual entry, provide simple and actionable outcomes, and use internal and external data that combines with active and experiential claims data to provide clients a stronger model based on industry experience.
Employing such an approach will not only streamline the process but will also ensure adoption and the best results possible. Data and analytics are essential elements of the claims-handling practice now, and it's essential that they be used in creative ways to drive efficiencies and improve future outcomes. As science has proven, a species that does not adapt becomes extinct. The trends strongly suggest that data and analytics need to be part of the evolution of claims handling.
Robert Lewis is president of ISO Claims Partners. In November 2013, ISO Claims Partners launched WC Navigator, a technology tool for the workers' compensation market.
One of the nice information about Using Data and Analytics in Workers' Compensation.I found something what I want about the Early Identification and Intervention.


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As stated in BizDb's data (last updated on 19 May 2018), the company uses 1 address: 79 Seymour Place, Bellevue, Tauranga, 3110 (type: registered, physical).
Up to 30 Nov 2015, P-Can-F Limited had been using 291 Mitchell Street, Brooklyn, Wellington as their registered address.
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The Return (Day 20) Going, going... gone? Typhoon Melor.
(Not much of a photo, but it tells the story - flooded rivers and unusually deserted streets!)
We left our hotel early to meet the students at Tokyo Station. The information screens on the train were announcing the closure of many services due to to the typhoon. At Tokyo station we found that our express to Narita had been cancelled, but we were able to take an earlier (but slower) local train. There were a lot of delays along the way. On arrival at Narita it was confirmed that our Singapore Airlines flight had been delayed for 8 hours, but they could organise 12 tickets on an ANA flight leaving in an hour or so. But the time we'd been weighed, re-ticketed and x-rayed we had to run the length of the airport to make our flight!
The take-off was the scariest I've experienced. As the winds buffeted the jet, it swerved from side to side as it accelerated up the runway. We were getting knocked around in the seats. The turbulence continued for at least the first 15 minutes of the flight - until we were above the weather. Amazingly, after our little adventure, we didn't get into Changi any later than our original schedule!
When the train doors opened it was obvious that the winds were still high..
(photo from ABC online)
(photo from CBS)
(photo from Times online)
5:33 a.m.: Not sure at this stage whether Typhoon Melor will ground our flight or not...
6:30 pm (Singapore time) We got out! It was only later that we saw the damage on the news...
The Return (Day 19) - Sayonara
Our last day at Asuka Senior High and the students put on a fantastic Sayonara party - lots of laughs, tears, food, music and exchanging of gifts!
We hope this is only the end of the first chapter of lifetime relationships between Japanese and Aussies.
The Return (Day 18) Tokyo Disneyland!
Enjoying my time with nine teenagers on a train bound for Tokyo Disneyland…
The Rainiest Kingdom of Them All. The bad news is that it's raining. The good news is that it's kept the crowds away so the queues are all short for the rides and movies…
Not really Lake Disney - just lights reflected in the puddles at the entrance.
A bit corny, but great singing, dancing and special effects.
This place is huge. You can even stay onsite at Disney Resort if you're not short of yen.
Not just for children. All Japanese seem to be childlike in their love of the Disney fantasy and characters.
And some of the gaijin are rapt too…
On safari on the Jungle Cruise.
The Halloween Grand Parade.
The Return (Day 17) Back-to-school
Another day at school. Ceramics class.
English language lab.
Back near our hotel, admiring the fantastic contemporary architecture for which Shinjuku is famous. The rainforest buttressed-rooted-like Yasuda Kasai Kaijo building reflected in the Zenken building's glass walls.
The Mode Hal Iko building.
A very wet view from the 50th floor of the Nomura building.
You get a lot of exercise in Japan just crossing a busy street – major intersections have pedestrian subterranean arcades or overpasses. Behind this one again, the Yasuda Kasai Kaijo.
Pachinko parlours abound. I can't quite see the attraction of these pinball machines but they are EVERYWHERE.
The Return (Day 16) Shibuya, Harajuku, Yoyogi & Blue Note!
We began the day in Shibuya to check out the Love Hotels on Dogen-zaka. Most hotels have foyer displays of the rooms. This one had a push-button service to reserve a room for a night or a "rest" – all done anonymously.
One of the now-famous capsule hotels for men only. Shibuya.
Bo Peeps. Harajuku station.
It was Doll's Day at Meiji-jingu Shrine. Dolls have souls, so when their useful life has expired, must have their souls put to rest by the priests. There were tens of thousands of dolls, teddies and stuffed-toys on display. Afterwards they are disposed of "in a respectful way."
One of the less cool shoppers on Takeshita-dori, Harajuku.
Tshirt, Takeshita-dori, Harajuku.
The highlight of my day was seeing one of the world's great jazz acoustic bass players Ron Carter with his quartet. At 8,400 Yen for about 70 minutes, it wasn't something that a public school teacher can afford every day – but I've been a fan of Ron Carter's for years and who wouldn't do this while in Tokyo?!
The Return (Day 15) - Kamakura
We'd planned to visit Nikko for the day but a nice ex-pat Colombian we met on the train suggested this was better! Once the capital of Japan, (1185 to 1333) Kamikura is still a pleasant little train trip to the country just outside of Tokyo with beautiful temples and the amazing Daibutsu.
The Daibutsu (Great Buddha), second in size only to Todai-ji's we saw earlier in Nara. Incredible that something 13m tall and weighing 850 tonnes could have been cast from bronze in 1252 - 857 years ago! Like the ancient Greek statues or Michelangelo's David, the head is enlarged so that it looks perfectly-proportioned when viewed from the front base.
As you move away the head seems to grow. Like its Nara counterpart, the statue was originally protected in a huge wooden hall, but an enormous tsunami washed it away in 1495 and it's stood exposed to the elements ever since. An earthquake in 1923 destroyed the stone pedestal, but the bronze image remained intact.
The "wings" in the back are shutters to allow light inside. From behind you can clearly see some of the 30 cast sections which were fused on-site.
For a small fee you can enter the Buddha and look right up into its hollow head. The whole edifice now stands on a shock-absorbed stainless-steel plate, so it should survive quakes in the future.
Sadly the rain became constant, so we abandoned our hiking course and headed back to Hase-dera to see the gilded 8th C. 9m high carving of Kannon (no photo permitted) and the thousands of Jizo, patron of the souls of departed children.
Symbol of autumn, the Japanese Red Dragonfly. (Hasa-dera Gardens)
As well as the usual traditional noh characters, a stall outside Hachimangu Shrine also sold these more contemporary icons.
The Return (Day 14) - Asuka
Today was our first full day at Asuka High. Our students participated in a range of lessons with their host buddies. We got to wander around the school and join in too.
Asuka is a kind of experimental state high school with special selection (about a third boys, two-thirds girls.) There is a strong emphasis on practical subjects and The Arts. The works on the walls were of a high standard.
Horticulture is also on the curriculum. I think these guys were picking grubs off the cabbages.
Some of our students had a go at Sakura on koto. Tash was a natural...
Another fantastic painting by a former student.
Sitting badminton. It improves accuracy.
Jack and friend mime a Tug o' war in a drama lesson. Drama in high school is unusual here.
In the evening the English teachers and Kocho-sensei took us out to a sumptuous kaiseki feast at Sugamo restaurant
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HAIFA, Israel, April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESLT) (TASE: ESLT) ("Elbit Systems" or "the Company") announced today that it was awarded an approximately $30 million contract to supply STYLET, a precise Guided Mortar Munition (GMM) to a country in Asia-Pacific. The contract will be performed over a two-year period.
With a range of 1000-8500m, STYLET is a multi-mode GPS/INS guided 120mm GMM that is designed for tactical combat units and Special-Forces. STYLET's high accuracy of less than 10 meters Circular Error Probable (CEP) provides ground forces with an affordable precise solution that is easy and quick to operate, increasing their operational effectiveness while sharply reducing collateral damage.
Yehuda (Udi) Vered, General Manager of Elbit Systems Land, commented, "We are proud of the introduction of this new round into our portfolio of precise Guided Mortar Munitions. We see a growing demand for high-precision guided munitions that are also economically efficient. This contract award underscores the Company's significantly improved positioning in the ordnance area in general, and in the area of precise guided munitions in particular, following the acquisition of IMI Systems."
This press release contains forward?looking statements (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) regarding Elbit Systems Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries (collectively the Company), to the extent such statements do not relate to historical or current fact. Forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. Forward?looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results, performance and trends may differ materially from these forward?looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation: scope and length of customer contracts; governmental regulations and approvals; changes in governmental budgeting priorities; general market, political and economic conditions in the countries in which the Company operates or sells, including Israel and the United States among others; differences in anticipated and actual program performance, including the ability to perform under long-term fixed-price contracts; and the outcome of legal and/or regulatory proceedings. The factors listed above are not all-inclusive, and further information is contained in Elbit Systems Ltd.'s latest annual report on Form 20-F, which is on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward?looking statements speak only as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.


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Silicon Valley Veteran Kate Gerwe Joins SohoOS.com as CMO
Published: Aug 24, 2012 by Small Business Editor In Small Business Press Releases 0
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SohoOS.com, the leading provider of online management tools for small and micro-businesses, announced today that Kate Gerwe has joined the fast-growing company as Chief Marketing Officer. An expert on driving rapid growth in the tech sector, Gerwe now leads the company's marketing strategy, including the launch of additional integrated services for small businesses.
SohoOS.com, the fastest growing micro-business platform in the U.S., has over 870,000 users worldwide who streamline core business functions with the company's free online system. The platform provides customizable invoicing, business document templates, marketing solutions, tailored Web pages, storage and support, and more—all accessible via an intuitive dashboard from any browser, tablet or smartphone. With major investment capital funding, the company is building on its success to enhance its offerings and build a global micro-economy connecting micro-businesses everywhere.
"We're excited to have someone with Kate's knowledge and depth of experience on board," said Ron Daniel, CEO of SohoOS.com. "Kate understands all facets of the tech sector, from development to delivery, and we're thrilled to have her insight and expertise as we launch the many enhancements and tools we've planned for our customers."
In a Silicon Valley career that spans more than 20 years, Gerwe has worked with startups and established tech sector leaders alike. She served as CMO at Proxio, a global marketing platform serving the real estate industry, and as COO at Lucid Design Group, a company that pioneered real-time energy monitoring. In addition, Gerwe was VP of Marketing at People Power, a cloud-based energy management platform.
Gerwe's large enterprise experience includes a corporate partnerships leadership role at Yahoo!, where she managed marketing relationships with key partners, including PayPal, AT&T, Verizon, Rogers Cable and American Express, and helped grow the Yahoo! Broadband business from one million subscribers to more than 10 million and increase revenue from $50 million to $200 million in just three years.
Prior roles include a VP of Marketing position with AOL's small-business segment, where Gerwe managed marketing to five million AOL subscribers, and several key positions within Netscape, including Director of Strategic Planning and acting VP of International Marketing, where she led the company's international website expansion. Gerwe has a BA and MBA from Stanford University.
"SohoOS.com provides entrepreneurs and small-business owners with an incredible array of tools and services, and an unparalleled connection to a vibrant community," Gerwe noted. "I'm thrilled to be a part of it and look forward to building on our rapid growth and expanding our user base to empower small businesses and micro-businesses everywhere."
Learn more about SohoOS.com at the company's website: www.sohoos.com.
About SohoOS
SohoOS (www.sohoos.com) is a free online business management platform that empowers micro-businesses and freelancers worldwide with the management tools they need to flourish. With a growth rate of over one thousand small businesses joining daily, SohoOS, available from any browser or Web-enabled mobile device, helps growing businesses compete by offering a powerful suite of web-based tools for their operations. SohoOS's ultimate goal is to establish a new global micro-economy where small and micro- businesses interact and collaborate with each other to efficiently grow their business. Privately funded by Mangrove Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, SohoOS is based in San Francisco.
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Mad Men: Ways Chronology Plays a Crucial Part
After eight glorious and sumptuously detailed years, it's almost upon us, a world without Mad Men. A world where we can no longer live vicariously through the alcohol and cigarette laden offices of Sterling Cooper (Draper, Pryce, Cutler, Gleeson and Chaugh, or the countless other monikers the office has adopted). A world where we no longer gain insight into the unique and retro lifestyle of the 60s which looks eminently cooler than our own. A world in which we are not only entertained, but also educated with one of the most stylish history lessons we're ever likely to receive. But as Chaucer once said 'All good things must come to an end' and sadly that also applies to the Matthew Weiner penned Drama.
With the seven episode final stretch now under-way until the finale on May 17th, we take a look at how chronology plays a crucial part in three huge aspects of the show. From the more obvious ways a period show has to deal with time, to how it can distort a viewers consumption of the show and how that same concept can play into the characters hopes and disappointments.
A Lesson in Time
Mad Men has always been a show that likes to experiment with the expected template of a Television Drama series and nowhere is that more apparent with its approach to handling time. Unlike more conventional network dramas, Mad Men never placed much impetus on the need for cliffhanger television. It never concerned itself with storylines that would zig and zag for hours in order to secure a return-audience, in fact it was quite the opposite.
With no essential check-list for a standard episode, one entry into the back-catalogue could come off as a polar opposite to another. The show has always been described as something of a 'slow-burn', a phrase which many people would have been put off by in a time of action-packed television series like Lost and 24. But that tag has always been an unfair one. Dealing with inter-personal relationships and office politics like Mad Men does, the show was never going to get labelled as 'edge of your seat' television. But hours like season 3's "Shut the Door. Have a Seat" and season 6's "Favors" show that the series is impossible to pigeon-hole. These episodes displayed storytelling surprises at break-neck speed that would rival any plane crash or assassination attempt, while also serving to alter the very fabric of the show.
Set against the back-drop of the 1960s, real-world happenings have always been essential to Mad Men. But while one chapter could linger on for its entire run and give no information to the exact time and setting the episode was pinned to, another would be completely indebted to a real-life event, like the MLK assassination or the Moon-Landing.
But this intrinsic connection with time wasn't only limited to mapping its characters lives against real-life happenings. It was also a concept the writers used to provide unpredictable entries in a chosen season and it was these experimentations with chronology that provided some of Mad Men's finest moments.
Joan putting on a brave face in The Other Woman
Example Episodes: "Seven Twenty Three" (S3 EP7), "Far Away Places" (S5, EP6), "The Other Woman" (S5, EP11), "The Crash" (S6, EP8)
Experiments in chronology within storytelling have been apparent for nearly as long as storytelling itself. Whether it's telling the same story from different points of view like in season 4 of Arrested Development, detailing a huge story within the confines of one day like in La Haine or simply telling the entire story backwards like Memento. Chronology has always been a source of interest for writers and none more so than those associated with Mad Men.
Like many quirks and USP's, narrative tricks can quickly become tired when an audience gets used to them. But hidden amongst more formulaic entries, these individual musings can pack a significant punch when landed on an unsuspecting audience. Which is why these sparse exercises in experimental television always served to surprise and enthrall the Mad Men faithful. These separate episodes all illustrated different emotions within the show, whether they were used for comic relief as a consequence of taking hallucinatory drugs in "The Crash", namely the memorable scene of Ken Cosgrove's tap-dancing routine. Or used for creating intrigue with the three separate teasing images of Peggy, Betty and Don at the head of season 5's "Far Away Places", before the episode eventually looped back around to explain itself. Or perhaps most memorably, used to emote regret in "The Other Woman".
One of the show's most fondly remembered episodes, "The Other Woman" used its experiment with time to kick the viewer directly in the gut. Faced with a decidedly scandalous proposition made by a potential client, the partners at SCDP are informed that a disgusting individual who holds a lot of sway with Jaguar, would like to spend a night with Joan in exchange for their business. After the initial dismissal of even entertaining the notion, the partners begin to mull the idea around as it would prove a huge step in securing a future for their faltering company, minus a noble Don who is unaware to the other partners wavering ideals after storming out of the office. When made aware of the sordid proposition and eventually realising there was no real opposition to the idea from any of the partners, including most painfully given their romantic history, Roger. Joan seeks a partnership stake within the company to ensure her own future for the sacrifice she was about to commit.
This story is told in what we think is a chronological account, with the internal boardroom discussions taking place and then finally, Joan mentally and physically preparing herself for the seedy encounter. When Don finally finds out the other partners continued to discuss the idea behind his back, he marches to Joan's apartment in an attempt to stop her and when he finds her still in her dressing gown, he and the viewer are relieved he made it just in time. But as Joan closes the door on her white knight and returns to her bedroom, she removes her dressing gown to reveal she is fully clothed, having already been on the 'date' with the overweight gentleman from Jaguar.
These heart-wrenching few minutes epitomised Mad Men's ability to turn a story on its head when the audience least expected it and the climax of "The Other Woman" deserves to stand up with some of the best twist-endings in Television. Showcasing that just because a show doesn't move at a hundred miles an hour, doesn't mean it can't pull the rug out from under you just as quickly as any other high-octane series.
Grounding a television series that is so dependent on media like Mad Men, against a real-world backdrop was always going to be a difficult trick to master. One that could easily be fumbled, mishandled and botched to make the series play out more like an exercise of hindsight, rather than anything that resembles real drama. This was a criticism often made of another show that walked hand in hand with its periods media, The Newsroom. Using real-world events that were still fresh in the memory, the Aaron Sorkin penned show often pandered to its audience by decimating the real-world media's handling of affairs before showing them the ideal way they should have conducted their business. While media is also crucial to the offices of SCDP, it was always seen as just that, an office. As a series, the show was always more concerned with the people walking the corporate stretch of carpet, rather than the work being done upon it and for that reason, the show has by and large managed to avoid the same pitfalls as the aforementioned HBO show. But it did have many opportunities to do so, a major one being feminism.
Joan and Peggy in "Severance"
Example Episodes: "Babylon" (S1 EP6), "The New Girl" (S2 EP5), "The Summer Man" (S4 EP8), "Severance" (S7 EP8)
For a programme called Mad Men the show has always given a fully rounded portrayal of women, one that has diversified and slowly expanded to match its period setting. The show has never shied away from the themes of discrimination and sexism and has often tackled them in different ways throughout its run. Much like the wide assortment of female characters that have graced the show, the attitudes towards women's rights, abilities and treatment have varied from character to character. Some of its female characters are content to simply be subservient secretaries to their bosses, grateful and unassuming whenever their skills are needed elsewhere. Like the majority of the girls in "Babylon" when they are won over by the promise of free lipstick as the men objectify and leer over them from behind a one-way mirror. Some even aspire to excel in these expected roles like Jane Siegel in "The New Girl", who when fired by office manager Joan, relies exclusively on the feminine wiles which were so often seen to be shackles for other women in the office. So happy to play this constricted role that she eventually transcended their uses around the office and applied them to her personal life by ensnaring Roger into marriage. But where these previously accepted ideals of a woman's role in the 60s are best challenged, is with Peggy and Joan.
Peggy and Joan are two very different characters. Ever since Joan gave Peggy an unforgettable walking tour of the office in the pilot, Peggy has one way or another, strived to win Joan's approval. A point clearly evidenced by Peggy using her new-found seniority to fire a copywriter beneath her after he had insulted Joan in "The Summer Man". But as the show and the time setting has progressed, so has their dynamic. While it may now have fluctuated to more of an even keel than the initial portrait we were shown, the differences between Joan and Peggy are still a ripe source for the show to explore. This point was perhaps most obviously dissected in season 7 part 2's premiere episode "Severance". Much like the aforementioned Jane Siegel, Joan has always been confident using her feminine wiles to get what she wants. But where Jane's intentions were always fairly transparent and one-dimensional, Joan's have always been a bit more ambitious. As Joan began to reach the higher rungs of the corporate ladder, she started to have less fondness for the tricks she needed to employ getting there, the irredeemably sordid deal of "The Other Woman" perhaps being the final nail in the coffin. Even though season 7 Joan has indeed proved herself to be a vital part of the office and become an asset more than something for clients to ogle, she still has the knowledge of the things she has done to get there and for that reason, she admires Peggy.
Despite initially stumbling into it, Peggy has carved a hugely successful career for herself in writing copy and along the way, become a unknowing inspiration for many of the shows other female characters. Despite finding satisfaction within her work, growing up in the world Peggy did, she never quite sees herself as a beacon for the burgeoning feminism scene. Peggy still judges herself by the old-world standard of needing to settle down with a husband, so even though she should be proud of her own standing, she instead looks to Joan and wishes she received the same attention for how she looked. In "Severance", Joan and Peggy attend a meeting with 3 male executives from a different advertising firm and in this meeting they are treated in a tremendously misogynistic manner, with both of their credentials and knowledge being overlooked, while Joan also receives countless quips about her figure. Reeling from the meeting, the pair discuss it in the elevator, upon hearing Joan's unhappiness of how she was treated, Peggy retorts that Joan 'can't dress the way she does without expecting to receive some sort of attention'. Even though Joan responds with a barbarous quip implying that Peggy is simply jealous of the attention, the exchange is actually completely opposite to what the characters say and entirely reminiscent of their internal thinking.
Having never been the object of male desire in the same way Joan has, Peggy idolizes Joan. She sees the attention she receives and assumes it is a feeling that vindicates her, she assumes that it must be a better feeling than how progressing in a predominantly male environment has felt for her. Knowing that she has had to trade in parts of her feminine persona in order to be taken more seriously and seeing how Joan has done anything but, serve as painful glance in the mirror for Peggy. But having been subject to it for her whole adult life, Joan recognises that after the initial flattery, being seen as an object for male lust is a decidedly empty existence. Watching Peggy come into her own at the company is a great source of strain for Joan, while undoubtedly parts of her are proud over the once secretary of Don Draper's meteoric rise and what it represents for women in America, she is also jealous of how she achieved it. So even though now Joan is partner and not to mention, filthy rich, this exchange in "Severance" show that she still harbours envious feelings towards Peggy.
These two character arcs have landed Peggy and Joan in roughly the same place by the dawning of season 7 part 2, both well-respected within the office but still facing the dreaded ceiling that many women faced during the same period. They both inhabit a place where they've tasted small drippings of what it's like to have the equal respect as the men they work with, but they are also deafeningly aware that this does not always apply outside of their New York office. Mad Men's attention to detail in this aspect is why its female characters have been so well received, remaining entirely aware of how much progress they can each make, despite the whole audience wanting them to achieve more, this awareness of their time period has been a huge attribute in crafting that.
Recovery and Relapse: The Consequences
Upon first arrival Mad Men was known to many audiences as the 60s set show where everyone drinks and smokes in the office and despite having eight years on our screens, the show still has that label to many people. But any viewer who has delved into the show's many offerings would know that despite the odd episode that probably appeared to do just that, it doesn't glorify substance abuse. Instead, the show uses alcohol and narcotics to again illustrate the time period, but also as a way to show the human condition and how we all continually battle with certain aspects of our personalities and how we attempt to treat those vices.
And with all those free cigarettes and bottles of alcohol lying around, not to mention the countless client lunches and dinners where drinks are a necessity, who can blame the workers of SC&P to have a few problems?
Mad Men promotional poster
Example Episodes: "Long Weekend" (S1 EP10), "Maidenform" (S2 EP6), "Six Month Leave" (S2 EP9), "Favors" (S6 EP11), "In Care Of" (S6 EP13), "The Monolith" (S7 EP4)
The aforementioned tag of functional alcoholism within Mad Men is perhaps best encapsulated by Roger Sterling. Throughout the first season Roger was always portrayed as the guy able to perfectly balance business and pleasure, which on his scale was roughly around 70/30 in favour of pleasure. Unburdened by the deadlines of the creative process within the office, his sole tasks were to entertain clients and liaise with Don, both of which were easily aided with the consumption of alcohol. But when he combines this vice with another of his hedonistic pursuits, adultery, Mad Men shows us the first real consequence that the characters heavy drinking causes. In "Long Weekend" during the midst of a liquor-laden affair with two twins, Roger suffers a heart attack. A culmination of many things, including his age, cause Roger to take stock of his life and re-evaluate his actions. This is one of the very first attempts at recovery for Mad Men to tackle, but just like real life, a relapse is just around the corner.
Our first brush with a proper relapse of note, is with one-time Head of Accounts Herman 'Duck' Phillips. Introduced as a no-nonsense business man with a hunger to seal deals efficiently, ultimately making him clash with happy-go-lucky Roger, we slowly learn there is more than meets the eye to Duck. As his early stellar work begins to fade from people's memories, Duck begins to pale into insignificance around the office and in "Maidenform" we learn a lot more about his back story. We discover that Duck, like many others on the show would learn about themselves later, was an alcoholic. Meeting his estranged family, another consequence of alcoholism, Duck is reunited with his old dog Chauncey, which despite starting as a happy reunion, quickly turns sour. When another attempt to regain respect within the office fails, Duck turns to the drinks cabinet, contemplating revisiting his old vice, he notices Chauncey staring back at him with all the disapproval and disappointment usually reserved for a significant other. At odds with himself, Duck takes the extreme step to drag Chauncey into the New York night and abandon his supposedly beloved pet. This step is one which Duck rationalizes in his head as the only possible reaction due to his dependency on alcohol, he acts knowing he can't handle the shame in being caught out and being continually reminded of his brief wobble, even if just by a dog.
Freddy Rumsen's unfortunate accident
Duck's attempt to steady his life were in vain and he eventually succumbed to relapsing once more and being dismissed by the company. A fate also suffered, albeit rather more embarrassingly by copywriter Freddy Rumsen in "Six Month Leave", who devoured one too many and relieved himself in front of his younger co-workers. Despite being the most graphic consequence of a heavy-drinking lifestyle, this didn't serve to be defining moment of Freddy's battle with drink as Duck's was. Yes, he was asked to leave the company in the aftermath of the incident, he had to be really, but it wasn't the end of his journey. Freddy strived to get his life back on track and even though he never quite returned to the comfortable position he originally held, he survived to play a huge role in another characters inner-battle with substances, our protagonist Donald Draper.
Never quite blessed with the spectacular talent that Don possessed for writing inspired lines, Freddy was only ever to return to the company on a temporary basis whenever outside assistance was needed. But in this capacity, Freddy was able to help Don who throughout the series, developed a deeper battle with alcohol. Following his divorce from Betty, Don spent most of season 4 littering his dingy new apartment with countless sordid affairs and questionable behaviour for a father of 3 and despite a brief sojourn into sobriety, alongside a second attempt at domestic happiness with Megan, he again continued his downward spiral in season 6. Upon being caught with another woman by Sally in "Favors", Don hits the sauce like never before, so much so that in "In Care Of", he allows his usually carefully hidden past life as Dick Whitman creep into a meeting in with prospective client Hershey. This harrowing and mistimed moment of clarity served as the final straw for the other partners, perennially frustrated by his thoughtless actions over the last couple of seasons, they unceremoniously place Don on forced leave, just as they did with Freddy, whom as we know never fully returned.
But as we've already detailed, Mad Men is just as interested in the recovery stage as it is the relapse and part 1 of season 7 was almost entirely dedicated to Don's attempt to do just that. Initially used as a stooge to relay his own ideas back to the company who ditched him, Don enlists Freddy's help to get his foot back in the door. Having used the term 'hiatus' in word only, the other partners meant Don's punishment to be a stay of execution, a penance for all the harm he had caused with his acrimonious departure. But Mad Men being Mad Men and being entirely concerned with replicating real world experiences, Don is granted one last chance under a strict set of guidelines. Forced to report to his former secretary Peggy and made to hand in work he hadn't done the likes of since starting out as a youngster, Don is suitably unimpressed with his demoted role. Despite still truly wanting to be part of the company he built, he is unable to accept how well the company has moved on in his stead and when he hears in no uncertain terms from Bert that the company doesn't need him, he once again returns to the comfort of alcohol in "The Monolith". Knowing we are in the final season of the show and having been subject to just how much effort Don has placed in the hands of his recovery this time around, "The Monolith" plays as one of the shows most tense hours as we worry about Don being caught out. Stealthily drinking vodka from a coke can, we watch on helplessly as Don gets black-out drunk in his office and pray no one finds him like it and just as the tension reaches boiling point, in comes Freddy to the rescue. Having been in worse situations himself and having the sobriety and wisdom to handle it now, he carefully navigates Don out of the office with no major issues. After sitting him down in the comfort of his own home, Freddy imparts wisdom unto Don that only someone who has had the same experience can possibly give. Meaning Freddie's own recovery was in turn crucial to Don's latest relapse.
The Partners staring out to the future
These three elements are crucial to the DNA of Mad Men and all of them owe a debt to the shows peerless commitment to handling chronology. Whether it's in the sense of a post-production technique, a way to map characters realistic arcs or simply to act as a structure for hope and failures. One thing's for sure, Mad Men has been one hell of a time.
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Apr 11, 2015 Reply
Aaron Hatch
What I find interesting about Mad Men is how essay it could of become other melodrama show. But the writing of the show, and the construction of the show is what makes it stand out from the rest. Awesome article.
Yeah I definitely agree! The material is so well treated by the writers, in lesser hands it would definitely be soapy! Thanks for reading 🙂
I have watched the first 5 series as binge box sets.
Still watched it…
maggieg
I haven't yet started Mad Men, I will now!
You won't regret it!
Soulfull
I watched MM when it first aired but simply couldn't warm to any of the characters. I appreciate that it's well written and looks fantastic but when you can't sympathise with the people involved, it's difficult to maintain interest in a TV show (or anything for that matter).
Beall Vie
Just watched Series One on DVD over the last two days….(it was rainy here!)….I'll be off to the Video shop for Series Two today…..horribly addicted already
I didn't get hooked until season 3 so it's definitely all up-hill from here, I'm jealous of you experiencing it all for the first time!
Video shop! Cool! Do you rent it on Betamax?
Takes a lot to make a Don.
A pinch of handsome and talent too
A scoop of comedy to add the spice
A dash of awesome to make it nice and you've got,
Too many Hamm!…
I've always found Elizabeth Moss strangely hot. I can't be the only one right?
Definitely not, she's beautiful.
Daine
Time for a Mad Men movie.
Delphia Fogle
this is a type of show you can watch all the time and never get sick of thats i love watching this show
Prediction: Don dies in the final episode or just leaves NY altogether to start a life somewhere unknown to the viewers.
That would be a classic Don move. He's always been a maverick!
Smalley
All along, I thought that was him jumping out the window at the beginning of the show. I'd be surprised if he didn't eventually crack and jump!
Don won't die. He will be redeemed and reborn and very likely the hand that reaches out to lift him up will be the the hand of the person he lifted up in the very first season. 😉
jessg
A vicious show using sex to sell the deadliest artefact in human history. No, not everybody was smoking in the 60-ies and they weren't fully aware of the consequences as many of us are now.
Luckily, it's totally boring, so there's absolutely no harm in ignoring it.
Malia Oates
Best show ever.
Isaiahg
The problem is there's really not much decent acting. January Jones couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, Hamm runs around the show saying "What?" every other line, Hendricks is a one-trick pony, and Slattery is just boring. The guy who played Lane (I was told he died but didn't get far enough in to know) was the best of the bunch, along with that Kartheiser guy. I don't really remember Elisabeth Moss but she didn't exactly shine in Top of the Lake, so meh.
If you haven't seen it, don't bother. I prefer The Americans, at least there are commies involved and the acting and plot lines are terrific.
Hedrick
MM best line (Joan's):
"One minute you're on top of the world, the next minute some secretary's running you over with a lawn mower."
Maybe I got old but this plot seems like just an unappetizing hash of boring people's boring lives' problems.
It seems to me, having just watched the opener of the second half of the final season, that holding off with the second half was a big mistake.
A few weeks ago I watched all the House of Cards episodes, in three days. That is the only way to watch a serious and artfully produced series, unless you have a far better memory that I do.
I find Mad Men now terminally infected with lame duck disease. Why take an interest. It's over and we know it's over and having watched the mini-finale so many months ago, I just cannot curb the feelings of distance and ennui.
Actually, it was never of the highest calibre: not Breaking Bad, not the Sopranos or Buffy.
Period detail is going to be so much harder to get right .The speed of technologies coming into fashion the almost monthly upgrades to that technology will make period accuracy i think impossible .Example is say polaroid cameras probably had five year increments in upgrades now iPhones annual at least .
May 5, 2015 Reply
I think there is a glimmer of hope that things end better for Don than could be expected. He has always sort of been ahead of his time – he supported Peggy and Joan in ways that his contemporaries did not, for example. He is damaged, but certainly his past explains some of that. His relative embrace of his past when he showed his children where he grew up suggests he may be coming to terms with who he really is.
Jun 1, 2015 Reply
bernadettevina
god, I have so much respect for television because of shows like this. There are so many good shows on television at the moment. But i think mad men just like house of cards and breaking bad are the types that expect commitment, either you watch it from beginning to end or not at all. I sometimes prefer shows like cougar town and parks and recreation. Although they both fall in the same category but that's the type where you can watch whenever you left on. Which is always a great companion for monday nights with cheese and wine on the side.
Oct 27, 2015 Reply
luminousgloom
Mad Men has been one of the most refined and polished dramas to emerge in television. The show's incorporation of real-life events happening throughout the rock n' roll and political-scandal fueled 60s was awe-inspiring for viewers. Mad Men seamlessly cross-pollinated these themes in the individual lives of the characters we all grew to care for.
The retro feel of the production design, costumes, and set design were the icing on the cake, so to say, of the program; a means for us to escape and dive deeper into this dream-like time to many of us.
The sincere and complex characters in the series never failed to shock and compel the viewer to keep watching; truly entranced as to what would happen to their drama filled business career's and family's. None quiet like Don Draper captured our attention like this. His auteur style and charisma with a sea of lies and trauma buried inside him was unlike anything viewers had seen before.
Man Men was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of a show from start to finish. It was conceptualized, designed, and executed for a mature audience looking for substance with style, and didn't disappoint for a second.
Sep 11, 2021 Reply
J.D. Jankowski
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"Floyd Mayweather, JR. is one of the most boring boxers I have ever seen. The fact that he has been so dominant also illustrates why I lost a bit of interest in the sport."—Ivan Doroschuck
In 1982, a Canadian band released their debut album (for you youngsters, they were around before CD's) called "Rhythm of Youth" with Ivan Doroschuck as Lead Singer and his brother Stefan Doroschuck on guitar. The group also recruited Allan McCarthy, a percussionist. The band was "Men Without Hats", and a song on that album called "The Safety Dance" became a smash hit in Canada, peaking at number #11 on the charts in May of 1983. From there, "The Safety Dance" went on to be an international hit, peaking at number #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and having success in other parts of the world.
A video accompanied this song, with Ivan, front and center in mid evil times, running around with a midget who had been seen in the movie "Willow". The song was played heavily on MTV, VH1, and the old Friday Night Videos. You could tell Ivan enjoyed, at least from my viewpoint, doing the video and, as we say in the acting world, he popped on camera.
"The Safety Dance" was such a huge hit that I feel it didn't allow other great songs, such as, "I Got The Message" (I have now played this song for the last two weeks on my computer while I worked probably 15 times a day, just ask my lady Debbie who, by the way, also likes the song) to share the spotlight.
In fact, she pulled up the other day in her car and when she came in the house, she said, "I just heard Ivan on the radio singing "The Safety Dance!" Other songs on this album that I loved were "The Great Ones Remember", "Things In My Life", and "Antarctica", which had hit written all over them in my musical book, but as Ivan discussed were kind of sidetracked by the huge popularity of "The Safety Dance".
Fast forward 33 years….. Ivan is still making music, and has a strong presence on FaceBook, where we met. He is very approachable and has a great sense of humor… Just read some of his posts on his FB Page.
Not to stop there, Ringside Report readers, but you are about to find out that Ivan is a real diehard boxing fan. In fact, we can rightfully call him our "brother in boxing!"
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't put emphasis on something I discussed in my Q & A with Ivan, and that is the fact that I posted a video of his acoustic version of "The Safety Dance" at the end of our interview. Simply and bluntly said, "It knocked me on my musical ass when I heard it." Although I loved the hit version, I love this one even more.
So without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, in his own words, Ivan "King of the Cool Sunglasses" Doroschuck…..
BB: First off, it's great to see you touring and bringing your feel good music back to the fans of old and the fans of new. What is the biggest difference touring today from the 80's?
The hotel room keys are cards and don't have the number on them, and I keep having to go down to the front desk to ask what room I'm in
BB: I have to commend you for a strong FaceBook presence with some hilarious posts about fatherhood and just today, you're taking heat about your Beatles comment. Too funny! It's quite obvious you love being a dad which you have my full respect from one father to another. What is your biggest amazement when you hear what your kids are listening to today?
How much it sounds like '80s music, with synths and big drum sounds and everything.
BB: In doing research for this interview, I watched you doing a few interviews and never once, did you come across pompous or rude like many we see in the entertainment industry at times. What has kept you so grounded when others are not at times?
Age probably, or else I'm just lucky that you watched the right interviews and that YouTube didn't exist back in the days.
BB: I have to tell you Ivan, I know The Safety Dance was the hit and rightfully so, but just as good and in my musically book, "I Got The Message", "The Great Ones Remember", "Things In My Life", and "Antarctica" are all home runs too! What are you feelings on why these were not just as big? Also, can you give some insights behind each song?
"The Safety Dance" became so big so fast, it permanently overshadowed the rest of the album. Double-edged sword as they say.
"Antarctica" has a funny story to it, it was written originally as a ballad, and the night before we were to go into studio to record it, we were going thru it one last time and we accidentally set the drum machine at twice the speed. After racing thru it, we were laughing and just about to do it again at the proper tempo, when our manager very seriously and in no uncertain terms told us that that was how we should record it the next day. Happy accident.
"Things In My Life" was written for my first wife, we started dating on the November 14th mentioned in the lyrics (which has since become the official MWH day)
"I Got The Message" was written partly to showcase our French Canadian heritage, and partly to see if I could get away with singing "It's long and hard" in a top 40 pop song
The title "The Great Ones Remember" was lifted from a line in a sci-fi short story I had read. Can't remember what or who it was though.
BB: On your FaceBook page, I was blown away at a video shot at intimate club date you did in Boston. In the video, you did The Safety Dance (Acoustic) and if my eyes were closed, I swear you sounded like Cat Stevens, an artist I have always loved musically and respected as a human being. I have to be honest, though I loved the 80's version, I think this acoustic one was even better. Have you ever thought of recording it that way or maybe doing it and some other tracks acoustically?
Thanks, always loved Cat Stevens myself. I'm actually working on an album of acoustic versions of MWH songs to be released next spring
BB: Who were your influences musically growing up?
My mother was a university music teacher, and we had a lot of classical music playing all the time around the house, but I would have to say that the Beatles influenced me the most as far as songwriting and song structure are concerned. I listened to stuff like Led Zep, Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Genesis and Pink Floyd as a teenager, then Roxy Music, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Disco, etc…
BB: So you love to dance or you at least sing about it to get others to do so. Who do you put on to dance to?
Barry White of course, doesn't everybody?
BB: Chatting on FaceBook, I found out you are a fan of the sport of boxing….. How long have you followed the sport?
Quite a while. I grew up in Montréal which is a big boxing town (the Hilton brothers, Otis Grant, Arturo Gatti, Eric Lucas, Leonard Dorin, Joachim Alcine, Adonis Stevenson) and when I was attending the university I worked as a bartender in a hotel that held regular boxing events. I even trained at a gym for a few years back in the '90s.
BB: Who are your three favorite fighters of all time and why?
Muhammad Ali – not only my favorite fighter but also my favorite human being of all time.
Mike Tyson – never saw anybody punch so hard.
Barry McGuigan – I used to love hearing his dad sing Danny Boy.
BB: What is the greatest fight you have ever seen and why?
I saw local bad boy Davey Hilton, JR. defeat Stéphane Ouellette in Montréal in 1998 to win the Canadian Middleweight Title after the referee stopped the fight at 2:42 of the 12th and final round. The predominantly French-Canadian crowd was stunned into silence as the English-Canadian underdog came out of nowhere in the final seconds to knock out their champion. Classic fight.
BB: What boxers do you follow today?
I have to admit I don't follow boxing as religiously as I once did, I don't even have cable anymore. I still pay attention to the big fights, but mostly out of curiosity. I swear, between Don King sucking the life out of the sport, and the MMA sucking everything else, I kind of lost interest in the fight game for a while, I'm just starting to get back into it these days
BB: Do you think Floyd Mayweather, JR. would have been competitive in the 70's & 80's against the top fighters in the weight classes he won titles in?
Floyd Mayweather, JR. is one of the most boring boxers I have ever seen. The fact that he has been so dominant also illustrates why I lost a bit of interest in the sport. I don't think he would have been as competitive back then, when boxers were hungrier, purses were big, but not ridiculously so, and boxing was still a survival choice, not a career choice like it is today.
BB: If you could change one thing in boxing from the days when you first started watching it until today, what would that be?
Get rid of Don King, although he is a character, and we wouldn't have stuff like I dated a chick who was so hairy, the first time I saw her naked I thought she had Don King in a leglock!
BB: Who is your favorite actor?
BB: Favorite movie?
Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky
BB: Favorite Food?
Organic brown rice with Tempeh
BB: Favorite word?
BB: Least favorite word?
BB: What is one thing outside of the music, that you can share that readers may be surprised to know about you?
I did a year of Law school at the Université de Nice in the south of France.
BB: Finally, what is the saying you live your life by?
"If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you get Chinese food."
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